HANDY HINTS®
16 JULY/AUGUST 2019 FAMILYHANDYMAN.COMMinimize concrete dust
If you’ve ever mixed bagged concrete, you know what a dusty job it is. You
end up wearing and inhaling a lot of concrete mix! Now, I have a helper
hold a shop vacuum hose close to the top of the bucket. The vacuum
catches a lot of the dust before it goes airborne.
RICKY JERRETTDOUBLE
POTTING
Ever wish you could reorganize
your garden in the middle of the
growing season? Here’s a clever
way to do it. You’ll need a bunch
of pots of similar sizes. Put your
plants in doubled pots, and then
bury them up to their rims.
Whenever you want a change,
lift out the top pot and put in a
different one. This method is also
really slick for bringing plants
indoors over the winter.
MARIA KLAKEGGNO-ROLL PENCILS
Carpenter’s pencils are handy
because they don’t roll off your
workbench or countertop. But I
prefer regular pencils for precise
marking. To keep them from rolling
off the workbench, I put a tape
“flag” around the end.
DAVID SCHMIDT